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This page will contain a brief summary of each lecture given in the 2016-2017 session of the CS4/MSc Parallel Architectures course.
All slides from Lecture 1 were covered. Assignment1 is out.
Friday 20th January
We discussed until slide 11 from Lecture 2
We covered all slides from Lecture 2 and Lecture 3. Please read the original Trace Cache paper by Rotenberg et al. to supplement the material from the slides.
Friday 27th January
We discussed shared memory multiprocessors; we covered until slide 13 of Lecture 4.
We discussed cache coherence protocols; we covered until slide 21 of Lecture 4.
Friday 3rd February
We covered all slides from Lecture 4. We started discussing the low-level issues with snooping based coherence on a bus; we covered until slide 4 from Lecture 5.
No class today!!!!!
Friday 10th Feb
We covered all slides from Lecture 5. We then started discussing directory based coherence, covering until slide 2 from Lecture 6.
We covered all slides from Lecture 6.
Friday 17th February
We then started discussing about memory consistency models;we covered until slide 11 from Lecture 7.
No class ILW.
Friday 24th February
No class ILW.
We continued discussing about memory consistency models;we covered until slide 18 from Lecture 7.
Friday 3rd March
We covered all slides from Lecture 7. We discussed hardware support for synchronization, we covered until slide 5 from Lecture 8
We discussed hardware support for synchronization, we covered until slide 21 from Lecture 8
Friday 10th March
We discussed transactional memory, we covered all slides from Lecture 8
We discussing Multithreaded processors - we covered all slides from Lecture 9
Friday 17th March
Guest lecture by Stephan Diestelhorst from ARM.
We covered all slides of Lecture 10.
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